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Exactly. An exception that made complete sense to me was when Joakim Noah decided to stay another year at Florida. He came from a privileged background so he had the luxury of valuing another attempt at winning a college title along with all of the fun possible from living the college life more than an extra year of earning a salary (along with the risk of injury at Florida).

Noj pretty much nailed how I feel about LeBron. A great player but there are plenty of documented cases where he loses on style. The Walter Iooss photo shoot story that he wrote about really made LeBron out to be King Of The Douches. As far as the fan bases the past 2 games have summed it up perfectly. In game 5 when the Heat were down by 4 with 40 seconds to play, people were filing out. A little later all you could hear was some kid yelling "Good effort" (and it wasn't sarcasm, he's a little kid whose coach said the same thing to his team in games) as the place was so silent. Last night the Celtics are being slaughtered and in the final minutes you could hear the fans chanting "Let's go Celtics" as a salute to the squad's efforts. Go Thunder!

The same place where the LeBron fans were when the team was down. Nowhere to be seen.

Happy birthday. Play with some of those cool toys today!

I went through the same experience a few years ago. I'm fairly sure it was a mention here about the Gold Box being on sale that made me revisit it. I too hadn't seen it since it aired, and I had never seen most of the second season as I bailed on it thinking it was getting too silly. I ended up absolutely loving the the second season (and the 1st too of course). I agree with everything you say above, especially about the soap opera look at times. Which I suppose means I've had some experience with them to know what that looks like...

It's been that way since before the wheel. The verdict isn't in yet but many believe the widespread of cellphone cameras might be deterring crime.

I pre-ordered it last fall and ended up with #551. Just feeding the numerical conspiracy interests. *edit - My booklet is fine.

The beauty of it is can talk as little as you'd like. I'll go 2 months without posting my own content but I might comment in other peoples "threads" during that time. And when or if you're ever curious about what someone has chosen to share over time you can easily find out (if they're a friend). It's also not just people, but record labels, alcohol companies, artists and other such close friends will also let you know what's up or coming out. But to each his own. As far as the dangers of phone technology, having a listed landline nowadays is probably worse than anything a smartphone can throw up. Check out the "see neighbors" function on either the White Pages website or its app. It'll give approximate ages (they're wrong about me from my now defunct landline) though not of children. Ted Bundy would loved it.

The Padres are now the only team without a no-no. He threw a 1 hitter for them in 2010, allowing a hit in the 6th. 19 times in franchise history a Padre pitcher took a no hitter into the 8th. The closest one came in 1972 when Steve Arlin allowed a single to Denny Doyle with 2 outs in the 9th. While Googling Randy Jones (who in '75 threw 2 one hitters) I came across something rarer than a no hitter. An 89 minute game when Jones faced Jim Kaat in '77. Now that's fast work!

I don't like that I see so few albums per screen. If I shrink the font size I can get 9 rather than almost 7 in my standard set up, but I'd prefer to see more. On the other hand I see that on the Howlin' Wolf page they no longer have 3 entries for the latest Hip-O set. So if the makeover means they've tossed some redundant entries I'll give them that. I'm sure I'll adjust since I tend to visit it practically every day. *edit to add - You can now search by artist, album or song title and hit return without having to specify which you want. Hooray!

Congrats! I knew you'd get it before me, simply because it's tough for them to send it "ground" to the UK. I'm scheduled for June 4th since it's 3000 miles by truck(s). I can wait, though it'll be tougher once the reports of how dreamy it is.

Nice one, Q. Is that real, or did you make it up? MG Let's just say it's unaudited & very off the cuff since it doesn't include health spending, never mind other bills & such. (Why I've actually spent money on clothes recently. Shocking!) And thanks to the incoming Coleman Hawkins Mosaic CDs might be overstated. Maybe…It seemed like the thread would morph into "post a pie chart or photo of a pie" so I thought I'd do my part.

Funny how things change. What once was a pricey import is now tossed into a value package. I did a bit of a double take when I saw it was included.

I played the hell out of Talk Is Cheap when it came out. I even cranked it and sang along with the windows down on the Cassiar when the sun was going down hoping that it'd clear moose off of the gravel highway. I didn't hit any so I think it worked. I had been waiting a long time for him to do a solo album as I had bootleg vinyl & tapes of his tracks from the late '70s such as the country stuff like Merle Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home" and "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." So despite the high expectations Talk Is Cheap didn't disappoint.

R.I.P. Robin. At least he didn't go like brother Andy.

Reminds me of the 1977 finals when Maurice Lucas shook hands with Darryl Dawkins before game three of their series - they'd had a set to in game two. Lucas later said it was a con to throw Dawkins off his game. It worked, as the Blazers took the next four games after being down 0-2. I'm sure that BruceW remembers that. You're right Paul, Lucas was very very smart (and tough). He was the man in his day. The Enforcer I'm finally getting around to reading Halberstam's The Breaks Of The Game. It took a cross country flight for me to break it out. As an Oregonian it's required reading as it focuses on the Blazers's first season post-Walton (though there's tons of non-Blazer content), but seriously, it's one of the great basketball books, and it has a whole lotta Luke in it.

And tonight Humber gave up 8 in 2 1/3 vs. Cleveland. In 5 starts he has an ERA of 6.83 w/ the perfect game factored in. edit - the link didin't have tonight's game included at the time of the post.

I would shake that cat's paw, other than it would bloody mine if I did, so I will salute instead.

Indeed! He keeps good company. A few I found include (these were the first names that popped in my head and then I stopped): Age 41 - Teddy Ballgame 2 HR, 6 RBI Age 41 - Stan Musial 3 HR, 4 RBI (as w/ Williams' last season, Stan's 1962 is one of the great "old man" seasons) Age 40 - Edgarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Martinez 2 HR, 5 RBI Age 41 - Dave Winfield 1 HR, 5 RBI (so nice he did it twice) Um...and one of GoodSpeak's favorites who is just a little bit controversial so I won't write his name, knocked in 6 at age 42.

A Pitchfork interview with Kevin Shields about the upcoming (yes really) reissues. A bizarre tale of why it took so long. Also amusing (and good) is that the reissues will not be "loud" in an audiophile sense. Extremely loud in person, yet a "quiet" remaster.

2011 LB Lew Bush, apparent heart attack, age 42 2011 DT Shawn Lee - cardiac arrest, age 44 2008 C Curtis Whitley - OD, age 39 2008 DE Chris Mims - enlarged heart, age 38 1998 LB Doug Miller - lightning strikes (2), age 28 1996 RB Rodney Culver - ValueJet crash in FL (110 killed), age 26

When you put it that way, that's a mighty fine payment indeed! Congrats! The nice thing about photographing graves is they don't blink and a fast shutter speed isn't too great of a concern.

Not that you'd ever find it there, but the PriceBlink browser plug-in says that Target is selling it at that price too. So I think Amazon is just trying to match it. Some of these boxes are such outrageous deals. A few weeks ago I ordered the David Oistrakh EMI box for about $30, and did so thinking it was 9 discs. I found that to be a good deal. It ends up the box has 17 discs. What was I thinking, that a little over $3 per disc could be a good price?

You had to say "on the other hand." Poor Caron, after several seasons of missing at least 1/5 of the season he stayed fairly healthy (just the nagging crap) and then this happens in Game 1. Memphis was a dark horse pick to win the West if you 1) think Fisher will curse OKC or that they just aren't ready yet and 2) figure Manu gets hurt and 3) think bad thoughts about the other candidates. Last year the Blazers stunned Dallas in a game and that sparked a title run. Not that I see that happening with Memphis, but this is how I'd sell Game 2 if I had to the game intro. I wouldn't mention that last year some picked the Blazers as possible "go far" playoff team.